Divahn Calling

The University of Denver's Center for Judaic Studies continues its year-long series, Shema: What Jewish Culture Sounds Like, this week with a full platter of events, concerts and lectures featuring the Iranian Jewish cantor and ethnomusicologist Galeet Dardashti. A musician and expert on Sephardi and Middle-Eastern Jewish music  a singular genre with roots as old as civilization and modern incarnations from around the world  Dardashti will put all pedantics aside tonight to simply show and tell, with help from her band, Divahn, an all-woman ensemble given to tuneful explorations of Hebrew, Judeo-Spanish, Arabic, Persian and Aramaic traditions, using percussion and a variety of new and old instruments, including guitar, violin, cello, tablas and more.